Amitabh Bachchan called Reema Kagti ‘gurkha’ after she scolded him during Lakshya | Bollywood News
4 min readMumbaiApr 26, 2026 03:27 PM IST Actor-filmmaker Aamir Khan recently opened up on how Reema Kagti scolded him and spoke to him “very harshly” on the sets of his debut production, Ashutosh Gowariker’s 2001 seminal period drama Lagaan. While Aamir was the film’s producer, Reema was just an Assistant Director. However, Aamir isn’t the only superstar who has been pulled up by Reema when she was an AD. In her next film as an AD, Farhan Akhtar’s 2004 war drama Lakshya, Reema even scolded Amitabh Bachchan, who played Colonel Sunil Damle in the film headlined by Hrithik Roshan. Though Bachchan would be the first to arrive on set every day, his relaxed approach on set would end up causing minor delays, much to the chagrin of both Reema and her fellow AD and future co-writer Zoya Akhtar. “Zoya and Reema were so professional they’d even scold Bachchan sir as well on the set of Lakshya,” their fellow filmmaker and friend Anurag Kashyap told The Lallantop last year. “They would say, ‘Sir, aapki set …
